Tilney All Saints, Norfolk

TILNEY ALL SAINTS is a parish and village 1 mile from Clenchwarton station (which is within the parish) on the Midland railway, 5 miles west-south-west from Lynn, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Freebridge Marshland, union of Wisbech, Lynn county court district, rural deanery of Lynn Marshland and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The church of All Saints is a spacious structure built of Barmack stone and a fine specimen of Transitional Norman and later architecture: it consists of chancel, nave and aisles, with a square tower surmounted by a spire and containing 6 bells. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, with Tilney St. Lawrence annexed, joint yearly value £382, with residence and 60 acres of glebe and house in the gift of the Master and fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Samuel John Phillips M.A. formerly a scholar of that college and late vice-principal of Rossall School. The Wesleyans have a chapel here. The parish charities produce about £25 yearly and church charities for maintaining the fabric and for current expenses produce about $22 per annum. The Islington Lodge Estate, which was reclaimed from the river Ouse in 1821, extends into the parish: it is the property of W. D. Harding esq. Sir W. H. B. ffolkes, bart. M.P., D.L. J.P. Richard Bagge esq. John Lewis Marriott esq. and Watson Failes esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and silt. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats, peas and roots. The parish contains 2,750 acres of land; rateable value, £5,116; and the population in 1881 was 565.